ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUS DESIGN: ANINTRODUCTION TO EDST

摘要

Industrial companies are facing more pressure to improve the recyclability performance ofrntheir new designed products. The concept of Environmental Conscious Design (ECD) has beenrnadopted to assist more concerning about the environmental impact of the products at the earlyrnstage of designing. This new trend requires that the design strategy should be modified tornintegrate environmental constraints. This paper develops an Environmental Design SupportrnTool (EDST) to help designers improve their product in aspect of the environment. The proposedrnEDST is capable of evaluating the new designed product in terms of environmental sustainability,rnI.e., material selection, recyclability evaluation, and disassemblability analyses.